Bash, interviewing Conway on “State of the Union,” referenced a tweet from Conway's husband, George Conway, in which he suggested that President Donald Trump’s frequent contradiction of aides is “absurd.”

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Conway tried to turn the conversation back to Hillary Clinton and CNN, seeking to make a point about women’s intellectual independence from their husbands.

“No. 1 … that woman who lost the election whose name I never see on TV anymore is wrong that women — I think she said white women have to listen to … the men in their life to form their own political opinions. Wrong again, lady,” Conway said.

“No. 2,” Conway said, “it's fascinating to me that CNN would go there. But it's very good for the whole world to have just witnessed … that it's now fair game what people's — how people's spouses and significant others may differ with them. I'm really surprised, but very, in some ways, relieved and gratified to see that.”